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Published on Nov 23, 2015

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

PRESIDENTIAL MONUMENT

BY EMMA BELL
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PRESIDENT

  • Abraham Lincoln

MONUMENT

  • Lincoln Memorial

The Lincoln Memorial took nearly 3 years. They started building it at 1914 and was nearing finished by 1917.

The Lincoln Memorial is located in Washington D.C.

Photo by VinothChandar

Three years after Lincoln's assassination, people were demanding for a national memorial in honor of his death. In 1867, Congress passed the first of many bills stating that they would build a monument for the sixteenth president. An American sculptor, Clark Mills, was chosen to design the monument.

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